Stalin

3. Assess the impact that Stalin had on Russia and the Russian people
During his rule of Russia from 1928 until 1953, Joseph Stalin made decisions and had characteristics that left both long term and short term impact on the country and its people.
One of the biggest impacts made by Stalin on Russia was the Industrialisation of the country; Stalin’s reasons for doing this were mainly down to the fact that Russia was still a backwards, poor, impoverished country when he came to power in 1928. Stalin wanted to change this, and make Russia into a modern, industrial and high power nation. In order to fulfil his aims, Stalin introduced new industrial areas in places such as Kusbass and the Fergana Valley, which were previously not industrial areas, where new industries electric power stations, coal mines, oil fields, machine building and metal processing factories were developed and built. During Stalin’s rule, Magnitogorsk was built, leaving a lasting impact on the USSR’s development as an industrial country In order for these new areas to make a difference to Russia’s development and economy, the state run industries worked in order to live up to the newly adopted 5-Year Plans. These plans set production aims that industries had to meet within the 5 year deadline they were initially set. Over time Russia did build up its industry, and this left a long term impact on Russia, as well as Stalin’s 5-Year Plans being used to make improvements within the Soviet Union until its demise in 1991.
In order for Stalin’s economic targets to work, and for his 5-Year Plans to work, Stalin used collectivisation. In 1929, collective farms introduced and to be set up by 1933. An estimated 5 million peasants were put into collective farms, and these farms were used in order to produce enough food for the city workers, who needed to live up to the industrial 5-Year Plans. Collective…...

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Joseph Stalin, or Iosif Vissarionovich Stalin (Russian: Ио́сиф Виссарио́нович Ста́лин, pronounced [ˈjosʲɪf vʲɪsɐˈrʲonəvʲɪt͡ɕ ˈstalʲɪn]; born Ioseb Besarionis dze Jugashvili, Georgian: იოსებ ბესარიონის ძე ჯუღაშვილი, pronounced [iɔsɛb bɛsariɔnis d͡ze d͡ʒuɣaʃvili]; 18 December 1878[1] – 5 March 1953), was the de facto leader of the Soviet Union from the mid-1920s until his death in 1953.
Among the Bolshevik revolutionaries who took part in the Russian Revolution of 1917, Stalin was appointed General Secretary of the party's Central Committee in 1922. He subsequently managed to consolidate power following the 1924 death of Vladimir Lenin through suppressing Lenin's criticisms (in the postscript of his testament) and expanding the functions of his role, all the while eliminating any opposition. By the late 1920s, he was the unchallenged leader of the Soviet Union. He remained general secretary until the post was abolished it in 1952, concurrently serving as the Premier of the Soviet Union from 1941 onward.
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Joseph Stalin, or Iosif Vissarionovich Stalin (Russian: Ио́сиф Виссарио́нович Ста́лин, pronounced [ˈjosʲɪf vʲɪsɐˈrʲonəvʲɪt͡ɕ ˈstalʲɪn]; born Ioseb Besarionis dze Jugashvili, Georgian: იოსებ ბესარიონის ძე ჯუღაშვილი, pronounced [iɔsɛb bɛsariɔnis d͡ze d͡ʒuɣaʃvili]; 18 December 1878[1] – 5 March 1953), was the de facto leader of the Soviet Union from the mid-1920s until his death in 1953.
Among the Bolshevik revolutionaries who took part in the Russian Revolution of 1917, Stalin was appointed General Secretary of the party's Central Committee in 1922. He subsequently managed to consolidate power following the 1924 death of Vladimir Lenin through suppressing Lenin's criticisms (in the postscript of his testament) and expanding the functions of his role, all the while eliminating any opposition. By the late 1920s, he was the unchallenged leader of the Soviet Union. He remained general secretary until the post was abolished it in 1952, concurrently serving as the Premier of the Soviet Union from 1941 onward.
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Ruthless and ambitious, Joseph Stalin grabbed control of the Soviet Union after the death of V.I. Lenin in 1924. As a member of the Bolshevik party, Joseph Stalin (his adopted name, meaning "Man of Steel") had an active role in Russia's October Revolution in 1917. He maneuvered his way up the communist party hierarchy, and in 1922 was named General Secretary of the Central Committee. By the end of the 1920s, Joseph Stalin had expelled his rival Leon Trotsky, consolidated power, and was the de facto dictator of the Soviet Union. In the 1930s Stalin executed his political enemies and started aggressive industrial and agricultural programs that were supposed to lead to miraculous improvements in production, but instead left untold thousands of peasants dead. During World War II, Joseph Stalin was the commander of the Soviet military, first making a non-aggression pact with Adolf Hitler (1939) and then joining the Allies after Germany invaded Russia in 1941. Stalin attended the postwar conferences at Yalta, Teheran and Potsdam that determined the shape of the postwar world. He endured as maximum leader until his death in 1953; years later he was denounced by his successor, Nikita Khrushchev, and "Stalinism" was officially condemned.
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Joseph Stalin (1878-1953) was the dictator of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) from 1929 to 1953. Under Stalin, the Soviet Union was transformed from a peasant society into an......

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He was born as Joseph Vissarionovich Djugashvili on December 21, 1879, in the Georgian hill town of Gori. His father was a very poor and very unsuccessful shoemaker. He was an alcoholic and constantly beat his son. His father died in a fight when Stalin was 11 years old. Ekaterina, Stalin's mother, was a washer woman who hoped her son would grow up to be a priest. Although his parents spoke no Russian, he was forced to learn it because it was the language taught at the Gori Church School that he attended. Stalin was the best pupil in his school and at the age of 14 he earned a full scholarship to the Tbilisi Theological Seminary. During the year of 1898, he became involved in radical political activity. The following year he left the Tbilisi Theological Seminary without graduating and became a full-time revolutionary organizer. By 1901, Stalin became a member of the Georgian branch of the Social Democratic Party. Stalin was always helping with strikes, and spreading socialist literature. Stalin did not have a strong voice or charisma, but had a practical talent at organizing activities."
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Every country has experienced and needed one or two remarkable leaders at one point or another. Some countries are very lucky to have a great leader at an important time and make full use of the leaders; however, other countries are unfortunate to have the good leader become weak and powerless. Mao Zedong and Joseph Stalin are two of the greatest leader of China and Soviet Union all over the world. A great leader can influence a country for a long period of time and the impact can ever last for generations, for instance Mao’s impact on China which lasts for years until now. As the leader of the World Communist Party and the leader of Communist Party in China, Stalin and Mao share very similar thought and concept about the path of developing and Communist revolution, however, there is more divergence between them. Some scholars believe that they are both partners and competitors and this can be proved through many evidences. Although Mao and Stalin were two legend leaders of the Communist Party, it could not be denied that there are merits and demerits through their entire life. In the beginning, Mao was not as infusive as Stalin in the world in many aspects and he made important and strategic decisions with listening to the Stalin’s advices. There are few records or letters recording the communications between Mao and Stalin, however the left ones show that they once had very close and frequent communication with each other. Some scholars also believe that......

...Vissarionvich Djugashivili changed his name and became Joseph Stalin, Russia’s “Man of Steel” (Brent, 2008, pg. 72). Heavily influenced by his Marxist teachings and the mentorship of Lenin, he became the most revered and the most feared leader of the Soviet Union. Stalin became leader of the Soviet Union during hard economic times when their industries were fifty years behind other nations. Stalin implemented a series of five year plans to help bring the Soviet Union up to date with the rest of the World. Although is five year plans helped the Soviet Union industrialize quickly, they had a severe impact on his countries citizens. Stalin wanted to be the one and only leader of the Soviet Union and persecuted anyone who did not remain totally loyal to him or his philosophy. The policies of Joseph Stalin had a severe impact on the Soviet Union and left them unprepared for World War II.
In 1889, Stalin was expelled from the seminary for missing exams but he claimed it was for his Marxist propaganda (Marrin, 1988, pg. 107). After leaving school, Stalin became an underground political agitator taking part in labor strikes and demonstrations. Stalin joined the militant group lead by Vladimir Lenin, the Bolsheviks. During the revolution of 1904-1905, Stalin made his name by staging daring bank robberies and used the money to help fund the Bolshevik Party. In 1912, Lenin, who was exiled in Switzerland, appointed Stalin to serve on the first Committee of the Bolshevik......

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Stalin then conciliated his power, becoming close to the leader of the other parties. Stalin got rid of those that opposed to him. He destroyed, exiled, or killed anyone that got in his way or had been a threat to him. It is absolutely terrible in my opinion what had happened under Stalin’s rule. There were families that starved, kids that suffered from dehydration, and they died. Parents had eaten their children; Russia’s people had gone insane. This had been a catastrophe beyond imagination. Also, he had killed his wife and had killed a man named Kier Off because he was one of his rivals. And Stalin has to get rid of anyone that was in his way.
The children had almost worshiped Stalin. They thought of him as a good leader, but he had been an evil man. He had ordered innocent people to die just for no reason. Stalin was absolutely insane. All of these incidents are very similar to the incident of the Holocaust, in Germany. They had been transferred in Cattle cars just as Stalin had done.......

...Joseph (Dzhughashvili) Stalin accomplished many achievements for the Russia people during his life time, unfortunately at the expense of many lives, and others he sent into exile, in gulag camps in Siberia. He was born in Gori, Georgia, the son of a poor shoemaker in 1879. Like most young Russian men, of Stalin time, he struggled to find his way, but after much hardship in Georgia. He grew to be anti-government and the Marxist ideas were his new found believes. Stalin elected President after Lenin death in 1924. “The Russian Revolution was a war between the Bolshevik (Red Guard), communist, and Mensheviks (White Guard)”, Frazee, C. A. p179. Joseph Stalin fought in the civil war Bolshevik, standing strong on his ideals of socialism was the only way Russian would survive. His authoritarian rule forced the Russian people to believe as he did that socialism the right way and capitalism was wrong. While Stalin was in power, his ruling strategies industrialized the country, communized their agriculture, and he made Russia a more active country on international affairs, he lead his country to a superpower.
The early years of Stalin were the foundational years that gave him the true since of poverty, “an uptown boy, he distinguished himself in fighting, in Russian of the late 1880 and early 1890, Stalin at the age of fifteen adopted the Marxist ways” Davies, S. and Harris J P30. The ideas of Marxism, in the beginning, remained blind to the majority of Georgian’s country men. He......